Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Seminole and Choctaw were known as the (5) civilized tribes due they had farming communities similar to New American communities, they were forced by the US government to sell their homelands and relocate in Oklahoma in reservations through the Indian Removal Act of 1830 without reparations; losing around <em>25 million acres</em> of land.
In 1907, Ernest R. Hazard supposedly invented the banana split. He owned a restaurant in Wilmington, Ohio, and he hoped that a new ice cream treat would attract students from Wilmington College. According to legend, Hazard sponsored a competition to invent the new treat.